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> So, a proxy? Onion routing doesn't really play a role for this use case. The onion routing obscured our identity from the "proxy" exit nodes. Separately, To
by neilv 1y ago
> So, a proxy? Onion routing doesn't really play a role for this use case.
The onion routing obscured our identity from the "proxy" exit nodes.
Separately, Tor was also a convenient way to get a lot of arbitrary country-specific "proxies", without dealing with the sometimes sketchy businesses that are behind residential IP proxies.
(Counterfeiting/graymarket operations can be organized crime. I'd rather just fire up Tor, and trust math a little, than to try to vet the legitimacy and intentions of a residential IP broker.)
- sidewndr46 1y agoWhy would you need to obscure your identity from the exit nodes?
- qualeed 1y agoSo that the exit node can't go to the site they were scraping and say "this is the person scraping your site".
- radicaldreamer 1y agoBut you'd have relays in between, there's no way an exit node would know who is scraping...
- qualeed 1y agoRight, but the question was "why would you need to obscure your identity from the exit nodes", in the context of why the person chose Tor vs. a simple proxy.
- radicaldreamer 1y agoOhh I see!
- chatmasta 1y agoYes, but many scrapers configure their Torrc into single-relay mode (following tutorials and open source “rotating tor proxy” repos), in which case the exit relay can easily identify who is scraping which site.
- chasil 1y agoThe exit nodes are free to observe and exploit the traffic that they move. https://www.vice.com/en/article/badonion-honeypot-malicious-tor-exit-nodes/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/badonion-honeypot-malicious-...
- wslh 1y agoThe Tor exit nodes are public.
- qualeed 1y agoThey were concerned about the exit node identifying them, not the site identifying that a Tor exit node is connecting.